{"id":1651965,"date":"2022-09-21T17:02:50","date_gmt":"2022-09-21T21:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1651965"},"modified":"2022-09-21T17:05:21","modified_gmt":"2022-09-21T21:05:21","slug":"newsguard-adviser-michael-hayden-is-perfectly-fine-with-sharing-disinformation-to-protect-biden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/newsguard-adviser-michael-hayden-is-perfectly-fine-with-sharing-disinformation-to-protect-biden\/","title":{"rendered":"NewsGuard Adviser Michael Hayden Is \u2018Perfectly Fine\u2019 With Sharing Disinformation To Protect Biden"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnewsguard-adviser-michael-hayden-is-perfectly-fine-with-sharing-disinformation-to-protect-biden%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1651965&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>Former CIA Director Michael Hayden, who now serves on the board of the left-wing disinformation group NewsGuard, is \u201cperfectly fine\u201d with misinformation so long as it protects the right people.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Hayden, who served under President George W. Bush and led the National Security Agency (NSA) during the worst intelligence failure of the 21st century on 9\/11, reflected in an interview with New York Magazine on his role in smearing the infamous Hunter Biden laptop as an instrument of Russian interference. Hayden was one of more than 50 former intelligence officials who <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DrewHolden360\/status\/1440459511379030020?s=20&amp;t=tv3q_Le-b6PorhmmJPWKHw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">signed a joint letter<\/a> in the weeks before the 2020 election claiming the laptop was Kremlin propaganda. <\/p>\n<p>Contents from the computer\u2019s hard drive published by the New York Post <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2020\/10\/22\/heres-everything-you-need-to-know-about-joe-bidens-latest-scandals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">revealed<\/a> then-candidate Joe Biden was lying when he denied ever discussing Hunter\u2019s business with him, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2019\/08\/28\/biden-brother-business-2020-1476815\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">or with anyone else<\/a>.\u201d In fact, the former vice president had met with Hunter Biden\u2019s business partners and stood to personally profit from his son\u2019s potentially criminal overseas ventures. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHayden said he had not maintained much interest in the story,\u201d New York Magazine <a href=\"https:\/\/nymag.com\/intelligencer\/article\/hunter-biden-laptop-investigation.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a>. \u201c\u2018I\u2019m not following it,\u2019 he said, but he stood by the decision to sign and release a statement about a theory for which there was only circumstantial evidence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was perfectly fine with that,\u201d Hayden added. \u201cIt looked like disinformation. \u2026 It would be nice if we didn\u2019t have to do anything or say anything, but the Russians were doing so much.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hayden\u2019s interview with New York Magazine is not the first time the ex-CIA chief defended his demonstrably false claim that the Hunter Biden laptop was a Russian interference operation. In October, Hayden\u2019s Center for Intelligence, Policy, and International Security <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/10\/29\/hayden-center-doubles-down-on-blatant-lie-that-hunter-bidens-laptop-is-russian-disinformation\/\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">defended<\/a> the dishonest characterization that was broadcast to the country as voters went to the polls. <\/p>\n<p>Nearly 15 years after leaving the executive branch, Hayden now serves on the advisory board of NewsGuard, a popular pro-censorship browser extension that\u2019s being\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/01\/27\/left-wing-misinformation-group-will-help-teachers-union-indoctrinate-students-with-corrupt-media-propaganda\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">deployed<\/a>\u00a0in schools to indoctrinate students regarding acceptable news sources. Last month, Hayden <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/08\/18\/ex-cia-chief-who-called-gop-most-dangerous-force-on-earth-is-on-board-of-left-wing-misinformation-group\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">declared<\/a> Republicans the most \u201cdangerous\u201d political force on earth just more than a decade after authorizing drone strikes to gun down violent extremists. <\/p>\n<p>Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, another signatory of the letter in October 2020, also defended smearing the abandoned computer as Russian disinformation when asked by New York Magazine. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cClapper was not pleased to be asked about the letter two years after its release,\u201d the magazine wrote. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat are you trying to get me to say, that I screwed up and I shouldn\u2019t have signed the letter? I\u2019m not going to say that,\u201d Clapper told the paper. \u201cAs far as I was concerned, we were waving the yellow flag. At the time, it was fishy to me. It had the characteristics of a Russian disinformation campaign.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Never mind that claims of Russian disinformation surrounding the laptop were disputed by the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thefdrlst.wpengine.com\/2020\/10\/21\/fbi-doj-debunk-claims-the-hunter-biden-laptop-story-is-russian-disinformation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">FBI, the Department of Justice<\/a>, then-<a href=\"https:\/\/thefdrlst.wpengine.com\/2020\/10\/19\/intelligence-director-john-ratcliffe-debunks-russian-disinformation-theories-on-hunter-biden-emails\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Director of National Intelligence<\/a> John Ratcliffe, and the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/defense-national-security\/pompeo-agrees-hunter-bidens-laptop-not-part-of-russian-operation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Department of State<\/a> all before Election Day. <\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  Tristan Justice is the western correspondent for The Federalist. He has also written for The Washington Examiner and The Daily Signal. His work has also been featured in Real Clear Politics and Fox News. Tristan graduated from George Washington University where he majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow him on Twitter at @JusticeTristan or contact him at Tristan@thefederalist.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former CIA Director Michael Hayden, who now serves on the board of the left-wing disinformation group NewsGuard, is \u201cperfectly fine\u201d with misinformation so long as it protects the right people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":1651967,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1651965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1651965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1651965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1651965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1651967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1651965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1651965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1651965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}